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“One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books.”

Salman Rushdie

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The problem with literary criticism is that it tries to fit books into certain set rules, cutting them to fit these rules, but this ruins the books.

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